a map to ((no)w)here

[drusiph]

this is an art project that was inspired by yoko ono (pre-lennon, ya know, when she was a good artist). i had to approach this project several times over throughout my art education. it always ended in places i was not that fond of (metaphorically and literally in the sense i never liked the product of my production). but i have been thinking it through.

in her sense, it is "a map to nowhere". but, through some interesting linguistic readings and hermeneutic studies, i am looking at this project again but in a different light. instead of a map to nowhere, i read it now as a map to "now here" or "here now". they are spelled with the same letters, so that's intriguing to me a bit. so instead of a map to nowhere, i am planning a map to "now here". some of you others may have encountered this project in art classes, but this will be a slight different twist, a map to here, and the starting place is "where i am" or "where you are".

can you define or describe how to get to yourself from an outside perspective or from introspection? what is the causality of yourself? does every action have a reaction? does every single choice lead to who you are, and does who you are require every single choice? OR, does chance play a roll? how about free will? is there such a thing? this is a good art project for the aspiring artists.

ok, that's enough rambling.

[T.C.]

dru's said:

can you define or describe how to get to yourself from an outside perspective or from introspection?

I tried for 10 minutes to answer this.

[Sugarknickers]

*head explodes*

[witchy]

That's a project I pretty much like. It has some interesting questions in it.

[HSW]

To re-use the mataphor, I have a fully formed map of myself. I know the twists and turns imtimately. I can tell you how to get to this pain or that happiness, how to wrongfoot myself via diversionary tactics, where the road is blocked and, importantly, the areas that if you were to cross successfully you would become a friend for life.

But this is only a 'ground level' survey. I can't really see myself from above (or the outside) and am amazed that other people are generally put off by the complexities of my roadmap. That if they come to a tricky turn or corner they just give up and go home. If they would just ask for directions, I'll gladly give them.

A bit simplistic, but also truthful, in a sense.